interacting directly with the computer via chip implant isn't new. experiments like this one at the university of bangkok featuring a mind controlled video game have been around for a few years. but the signs of it can be really life changing when it comes to medical applications. a car accident left nathan copeland, paraplegic and with no fine motor skills in his fingers. in 2014 researchers asked him if he would be willing to have electrodes implanted in his brain. i i look back on things and, and i go maybe i was a little reckless in my decision making. but also, you know, i just, i knew from the moment that i qualified, that basically nothing would i stop me from ah, participating the electrodes were installed in an operation that lasted several hours since then, copeland has lived with a brain computer interface to understand how this works exactly, it's worth taking a look at some basic biology. there are some 86000000000 nerve cells in the brain. each of these neurons has an average of 200000 connections to other brain cells. that's around 100 trillion connections. when a region of the brain is ac